Without fail, the release of secret Clinton documents serves as irresistible catnip for the press and the Clintons’ political opponents.

Every page holds out the possibility of a salacious, even scandalous revelation that could dash the political ambitions of Hillary Clinton — or at least render her a mere mortal in discussions of possible 2016 presidential candidates, ending her reign as a kind of superhuman figure who dwarfs other potential White House contenders.

No such ground-shaking disclosure emerged in the batch of 4,000 pages the Clinton Presidential Library made public on Friday. However, there are many, many more pages to come. And even the first set served as a reminder of how any future Hillary Clinton campaign will involve reliving and re-litigating history — at least to a degree.

Here are POLITICO’s top takeways from the previously-secret Clinton records which went public Friday:

Dysfunction: past or prologue?

The newly disclosed Clinton papers provide fresh reminders and ample evidence of the chaos, infighting and dysfunction that plagued the Clinton administration in its early days. While this first batch of papers doesn’t provide much to link Hillary Clinton to those problems, critics are sure to draw parallels with similar rivalries and quarreling that beset her 2008 presidential bid.

“Our external communications failures are grounded in dysfunctional internal communications in the Executive Office of the President. Simply put: people don’t talk to each other,” top health care communications adviser Bob Boorstin bluntly wrote in a June 1993 memo to Communications Director Mark Gearan. “Meetings don’t include relevant parties. People don’t show up at meetings, and then countermand decisions. Decisions are made, remade and then reversed…..The result is confusion, both in message and policy.”

“We have done a miserable job of responding rapidly to the Republicans and opposing interest groups,” added Boorstin, who served in recent years as Google’s public policy director.

Other memos reflect congressional assessments that the health care reform effort — which Hillary Clinton headed up — was losing steam due to utter disorganization. One adviser told Mrs. Clinton that then-chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.), believed that “the health policy process was in disarray.”

The events which led to the ultimate demise of the Clinton health care proposal in 1994 have long been debated, but the papers out Friday provide an as-it-happened window into what handicapped that effort. Mistakes of more than two decades ago may have little impact on another potential White House bid by the first lady, but they could fuel concerns about her management style.

Clinton allies say her management of the State Department during her four-year-tenure there is a better measure of her current abilities, but the disclosures Friday could add to calls for her to mount any 2016 campaign with an entirely fresh slate of staff and advisers free of ties to the Clinton White House or her 2008 White House bid.

But wait — there’s more!

The 4,000 pages released Friday by the National Archives are just a small portion of what’s coming in the next few weeks and months. And there’s reason to think that what’s still to come deals with topics far more sensitive than those covered in the first batch.

Still to come: legal memos about the Clintons’ dealings with independent counsels investigating issues like Whitewater and the death of White House attorney Vince Foster, policy memos about racial issues and crime, and even memos about interactions between the former president and spiritual advisers like Revs. Billy Graham and Tony Campolo.

Another 21,000 pages or so are due out in the next couple of weeks. In addition, 8,000 pages are still in legal limbo awaiting clearance from representatives of Bill Clinton, President Barack Obama, or both.

Even if all those records emerge in the next month or two, history is likely to chase the Clintons for years. Only about 4 percent of the roughly 78 million pages of paper records and 20 million emails in the Little Rock presidential library have become public so far, according to an Archives spokeswoman.

Most of those pages haven’t been seen by human eyes since they were locked away at the end of the Clinton presidency, so even the Clintons’ current aides don’t have a good idea of what lurks there. Of course, the mountain of paper is so huge and the legally-mandated review process so painstaking that Clinton supporters and opponents can be fairly sure that most of the records will still be under wraps through any Clinton campaign in 2016 and well beyond.

Health care: what’s old is new

The nitty-gritty of health care policy discussions from the early 1990s might seem of dubious relevance 20 years later, especially since Obama managed in 2010 to do what the Clintons couldn’t: get a major health care reform law through Congress.

But the papers released Friday show that Hillary Clinton and her team identified several of the most politically risky aspects of reform — indeed they seemed to put their fingers squarely on problems that became and remain major headaches for Obama.

At a closed-door briefing for Democratic congressional leaders in September 1993, Clinton portrayed an individual mandate for health insurance as politically treacherous, especially when compared to the employer mandate she and her husband were backing.

”We have looked at that in every way we know how to,” Clinton told the congressional Democrats about the individual mandate, according to the transcript. “That is politically and substantively a much harder sell than the one we’ve got — a much harder sell…. You will be sending shock waves through the currently insured population that if there is no requirement that employers continue to insure, then they, too, may bear the individual responsibility.”

Clinton ultimately became a big supporter of the individual mandate. In fact, in the 2008 campaign, she touted the idea and Obama resisted it. He ended up embracing it as part of the legislation he supported as president, though with tweaks in the form of subsidies for low to middle-income Americans and insurance mandate for some employers.

The new papers also show a top Clinton adviser delivered a warning more than two decades ago that Obama would have been wise to heed when pushing his own reform bill.

In a 1994 memo, Clinton aide Todd Stern warned against Bill Clinton promising Americans they could keep their personal physician after health care reform kicked in. “You’ll pick the health plan and doctor of your choice,” a draft of Clinton’s State of the Union address to be delivered that year said.

Stern said that would be stretching the truth. “This sounds great and I know it’s just what people want to hear. But can we get away with it?” he asked colleagues David Kusnet and Bob Boorstin. “I’m worried about getting skewered for over-promising here on something we know full well we won’t deliver.”

Stern’s advice appears to have been largely dismissed. “Our goal is health insurance everybody can depend on [including] most of all, the freedom to choose a plan and the right to choose your own doctor,” Clinton ultimately declared in his speech.

Stern has served for the past five years as Obama’s special envoy on climate change. But his past advice on health care pledges didn’t stop Obama from repeating much the same promise Clinton did, declaring Americans who liked their health plans could keep them. That landed Obama in hot water late last year when thousands of Americans began receiving notices that their plans were being canceled because they didn’t meet Affordable Care Act requirements. The White House implemented a stopgap measure to try to stem the cancellations.

Obama has since said he regretted his rhetoric on the point. “I am sorry that they are finding themselves in this situation based on assurances they got from me,” he told NBC News in November.

The 1990s were a long, long time ago

To many, the Clinton era seems like just yesterday. But the papers released Friday are replete with reminders that at least where technology is concerned the 1990s were an eon ago.

Aides and staffers grapple awkwardly with the rise of the Internet, trying to sound conversant with the emerging technology but betraying considerable ignorance about it.

“Hillary could speak to young women through Internet,” a 1995 memo from the first lady’s then-press secretary Lisa Caputo says, awkwardly omitting the “the.”

“People magazine is tinkering with the possibility of using Internet. They have been in touch with me about the prospect of having Hillary communicate with parents across the country about children and families through Internet,” Caputo wrote.

A draft of a speech Bill Clinton was to deliver in India near the end of his presidency contained jokes that underscored he was not raised in the internet generation.

“When I was growing up, chips were something you ate, windows were something you washed. discs were something you played, and semiconductors were small musicians,” the proposed speech said. A joke about ordering food over the Web was cut. “No indulgent food jokes,” someone jotted in the margin.

Perhaps the most telling indication that the 1990s were a different era: the records released Friday were largely typed memoranda and included few e-mails — a far cry from the massive email chains that are now commonplace in any modern office.

Jennifer Epstein, Katie Glueck, James Hohmann, David Nather and Darren Samuelsohn contributed to this report.